I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.

Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting.